What is the opportunity? The AI Centre of Excellence is the Bank's powerhouse for safe, responsible and scalable AI adoption. It sets the vision, standards and governance that shape how AI is built and deployed across the organisation, while providing the platforms, expertise and partnership needed to turn ideas into high value outcomes. Your role will be to provide end-to-end oversight and coordination of AI initiative delivery across the Group. The role acts as the delivery control tower for the AI Centre of Excellence (CoE) managing the AI initiative pipeline, coordinating across pathfinder pods and enabling functions, running planning increments, and proactively advancing blockers. The role owns demand management and prioritisation across active delivery, ensuring initiatives progress on time and in line with technical standards and enterprise governance requirements. This is your chance to drive progress across sophisticated, multi-stream programmes, setting the pace, sharpening delivery standards and embedding governance that actually empowers teams rather than slows them down. If you love orchestrating moving parts, solving problems before they surface and enabling people to deliver their best work, this role puts you right where the action is! In this role, you will: Own and maintain the AI CoE delivery pipeline, ensuring a consolidated view of all active, planned and backlogged initiatives. Coordinate end to end delivery across pathfinder pods, platform engineering and enabling functions, running structured planning increments and delivery ceremonies. Lead delivery risks, blockers, dependencies and issues, maintaining key governance artefacts and increasing where needed. Ensure platform readiness by partnering closely with the AI Platform Owner and driving consistent delivery standards, tooling and ways of working. Support governance and reporting, preparing content for forums (SteerCo, ARB, InfoSec) and providing accurate status updates to senior partners. Build strong cross functional relationships and contribute to continuous improvement as the CoE scales. What will make you stand out? Proven delivery management experience in technology or data driven environments, with strong agile delivery knowledge (PI planning, Kanban, sprints). Ability to coordinate multiple concurrent workstreams, manage delivery pipelines, demand intake and resource allocation. Strong communication and partner leadership skills, able to work effectively across technical and non-technical groups. Disciplined approach to governance and documentation, maintaining delivery artefacts and ensuring quality and risk standards are met. Familiarity with AI and data delivery, including awareness of model lifecycles and governance requirements; financial services experience is a plus. Essential Qualifications There are no specific qualifications or minimum educational requirements needed for this role. More about the team Working at the intersection of innovation and control, the CoE ensures the Bank can unlock meaningful business impact from AI while upholding the highest expectations of ethics, risk management and regulatory compliance. It's where innovative capability meets disciplined execution enabling the Bank to harness AI with confidence, clarity and ambition. This is a hybrid role, based primarily in Dublin. We typically ask colleagues to spend a minimum of 8 days per month working in-person to support teamwork and connection. Specific arrangements will be confirmed by your recruiter to ensure they meet the needs of the role and team. Why work with us? The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work-life balance with an opportunity for flexible working, along with 25 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions. Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy and working parent supports. Your wellbeing is important to us; we have an employee assistance program, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches available. We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career! Key Competencies Customer Focused - Leader Better together - Leader Be Decisive - Leader Take Ownership - Leader Manage Risk - Leader We're on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email. Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process. Where Agency assistance is required Bank of Ireland Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Bank of Ireland by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role. Your Journey, Our Support We believe that embracing the perspectives of all of our employees is a value that connects us with our customers and our communities, and makes it an even better place to work. We're building an organisation that is welcoming to all, which enables our colleagues to thrive and reach their full potential. Neurodiversity We are on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We have recently partnered with Auticon, to improve inequalities in employment for neurodivergent adults. Find out more Gender Balance Our Gender Balance Network creates an inclusive space where colleagues of all genders can connect, learn from one another, and work together to achieve our gender balance objectives. Multicutural We support colleagues from all backgrounds, cultures and ethnicities. We want our colleagues to feel safe, included and experience a sense of belonging. With Pride Our objective is to drive representation and inclusion of the LGBTQ+ community, promote bringing your whole self to work, and increase visibility across locations, regionals and mediums. Read more about Inclusion & Culture Flexible Working We're committed to giving our colleagues the flexibility they need to thrive. Our hybrid working model is central to this approach, enabling more productive ways of working while supporting a healthier work-life balance. For roles that offer hybrid working, we typically ask that colleagues spend a minimum of 8 days per month working in-person. Specific working arrangements will be confirmed with your recruiter to ensure they meet the requirements of the role and the team you will be joining. Hear how flexible working has helped Helen find the balance that works for her: Our Benefits Every job at Bank of Ireland comes with... Pay & Perks Competitive pay package Premium pension contribution Pay reviews & profit-share scheme Financial wellbeing coaches Excellent healthcare contributions Work-Life Balance 23 days annual leave Flexible leave: buy or sell your days 6 months paid maternity leave Fertility and surrogacy policies Working parent and carer supports Career Growth Support for professional qualifications Award-winning career framework Clear pathways for development and progression Hear what San San has to say: \"At Bank of Ireland there's a range of development programmes and supports. That brings fresh opportunities and the chance to futureproof my career.\" To be considered for this role you will be redirected to and must complete the application process on our careers page. To start the process click the Continue to Application or Login/Register to apply button below. Benefits: Work From Home
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